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Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume I.

Note 236 — Chapter IX

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Thus imitated by the dramatist Lee, from the historian Davila:—

"Have you not heard—the King, preventing day, Received the guards within the city gates; The jolly Swisses marching to their pipes, The crowd stood gaping heedless and amazed, Shrunk to their shops, and left the passage free."—S.

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